Poetae Bucolici Graeci sive Theocriti Bionis et Moschi, Thomas Briggs, 1821

Poetae Bucolici Graeci sive Theocriti Bionis et Moschi Quae Supesunt. Cum Notis Variorum Et Suis. Edidit Thomas Briggs, A.M., Collegii Regalis Olim Socius, (The Bucolic Poets of the Greeks, or Theocriti, Bionis and Moschi).

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Published Cantabrigiae. Typis Ac Sumptibus Academicis. Excudit Joannes Smith (John Smith, Cambridge). First edition thus, 1821. Scarce.

A good full leather hardback with gilt decoration, with raised squared bands and title label to spine. Some scuffing, bumping and wear and split at lower 5cm of front hinge. Bookplate, signature, and crest of Daniel Vawrdey to endpapers. Some cracking to front endpaper at inner joint, and a little at rear.

Marbled edges to text block, dust toned to top edge. Some ink stain marks to edges. Text is bright, clean and soundly bound, with very occasional light spotting.

Text in Latin and Greek.

 vi + 418pp + 1pp.

Weight approximately 1092g (unpacked).

Dimensions: 

Approximately 221mm high x 145mm wide x 45mm deep.